A native of Massachusetts, Eric Forsbergh wrote poetry in high school and college. He attended the University of Tennessee for undergraduate school, and the University of North Carolina for graduate school. After a 25 year hiatus to attend to family and career, he resumed writing poetry in 2010, and is currently an active member of the Poetry Society of Virginia.

His poems have been published in The Poet’s Domain (Live Wire Press, 2012) and in the poetry blog But Does It Rhyme? (2013). His poems have won the University of Tennessee Poetry Prize, the Hampton Roads Writers Poetry Prize, and the Poetry Society of Virginia Edgar Allen Poe Memorial Prize.

Forsbergh, a Vietnam veteran, maintains a lake cabin in Maine and lives in Reston, Virginia, where he practices dentistry.